Consider the following 9-stage pipeline with data forwarding…

Consider the following 9-stage pipeline with data forwarding available only from the “EX2” and “Write Back” stages to the “Register file Read” stage. Registers are read during RR, and addition results are available in EX1. Recall the hardware implementation of data forwarding between stages is purely combinational.

A sample of 22 fifth grade students has a grade point averag…

A sample of 22 fifth grade students has a grade point average of 3.0. We know that the grade point average of all fifth grade students over the last five years is 2.75. We are interested in whether the grade point average of the 22 students is significantly different from the 2.75 GPA average from the last five years. What statistical test should be used to answer this research question?